The Root Cause of America's Problems in the
Middle East: The Palestinian Suffering

By Hassan El-Najjar

Al-Jazeerah, September 12, 2006

Roots of America's problems in the
Middle East:The Palestinian
suffering

(Jihad
Awartani, Ad Dustour, 9/12/06).

The
US blind support for the Israeli occupation and control over the Palestinian
people has created enormous suffering for Palestinians. This is seen by
Arabs, Muslims and peace-loving people all over the world as support for the
Israeli injustice, oppression, and persecution of the Palestinian people.

The Zionist state should be
forced to end its occupation of Palestine, as a first step
towards peace. Supporting Israeli occupiers leads to suffering
of the Palestinian people, to more wars, and to more death and
destruction in the world.

It's time for the US power elite (Conservatives and
Liberals alike) to admit that American foreign policy has been hijacked by
Israelis and their supporters. America's best interests are served by having
friendly and peaceful relations with all nations, particularly Arabs and
Muslims who own most of the world's oil reserves.

It's time for officials in
the Bush administration and for members of Congress to admit
that the US unqualified support for Israel has led to the
Palestinian suffering and to all these wars in the Middle East
and around the world.

Dodging the issue by attacking Islam, Muslims, and Arabs
does not solve any problems.

The solution is ending the
occupation of Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and spending
the money on reconstruction instead of spending it on death
and construction.

Briefly, there have been Western invasions and occupation
which were met with resistance. Most recently, the Israeli
occupation government has replaced these direct Western
attempts to control resources of the Middle East.

The
Israeli occupation government could not have maintained its
occupation of Palestinian and other Arab lands without Western
support in general and the US support in particular.

For the sake of America, for the sake
of innocent Arabs and Muslims, for the sake of peace in the world, the US
support for the Israeli occupation government has to stop.